[Gambas-user] Gambas3 Libraries problem -> Gambas 3 bug or OS distro related?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 20/08/2012 16:25, Willy Raets a écrit :
> Situation:
> 1. Build a Gambas library for system information retrieval.
> 2. Other developer installed my library (using openSuse rmp package) and
> is using it for one  of his applications
> 3. He send me his application and I installed it (using a .deb package)
> 4. Application installs but does nothing (running command line it turns
> out he is missing the depend library -> although this one is installed
> on my system -> see attached screen SysStats-Terminal.png)
>
> The library on my system is installed in usr/bin and called
> SysInfo.gambas (-> see attached screen SysInfo-Terminal.png)
>
> The library on his sytem is installed in usr/bin and called SysInfo
> (without the .gambas)
>
> After making a symbolic link called SysInfo (referring to
> SysInfo.gambas) his application run smoothly on my system.
>
> This is what we noted:
> When I installed my gambas library (on Ubuntu) and go to the properties
> of a project using it, it is named SysInfo.gambas
> When he installed my gambas library (on openSuse) and goes to the
> properties of a project using it, the library is named SysInfo
>
> Now it seems that when he makes a package of an application using my
> library the dependencies looks for SysInfo
> When I make a package of an aplication using my library the dependencies
> look for SysInfo.gambas.
> But installing the SysInfo .deb package on my system will ALWAYS install
> it as SysInfo.gambas and never as SysInfo. On his system an ls of
> usr/bin shows SysInfo (without extention .gambas)
>
> Is this a bug in Gambas3 or an issue of distributions working
> differently. As I noted, I could solve it with a symbolic link, but that
> is no graceful solution for end users.
>
> I attached a screen with the project properties tab libraries where top
> is on my system and bottom is on his system.(LibraryDiff.png) Note the difference!!
> Put distro, desktop and Gambas info of both systems on this last screen.
>
> Willy
>

OK, the bug should be fixed in revision #5061.

The rule is actually the following:
- Normal project executables are installed *without* the '.gambas' 
extension.
- Library project executables are installed *with* the '.gambas' extension.

It was not implemented correctly.

Note that the 'Autotools' packager is out-of-date and needs some work to 
support all that library stuff. But all other packagers should work as 
expected.

Tell me if it is ok for you!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini